A quiet and observant sports drama, When She Runs, like The Fits, is a film that lives and breathes process. Our lead Kristen goes through her daily life which involves late night training sessions at one of those unstaffed 24-hour discount gyms, working at a snow cone shop, and visitations with her five-year-old son. While her age is never explicitly the subject of the film, she’s given a once-in-every-four-years shot at moving up to the next round, qualifying to train for team USA. The now or never spirit haunts everything she does.
Directed by Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, When She Runs, like the team’s previous feature God Bless the Child, is largely a work that provides the raw material, requiring some narrative heavy lifting from the audience. Whereas God Bless the Child proved to alienate with the blusterous rhythms of children left alone to fend for themselves...
Directed by Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, When She Runs, like the team’s previous feature God Bless the Child, is largely a work that provides the raw material, requiring some narrative heavy lifting from the audience. Whereas God Bless the Child proved to alienate with the blusterous rhythms of children left alone to fend for themselves...
- 5/3/2018
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
When She Runs Review
When She Runs (2018) Film Review from the 17th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, and starring Kirstin Anderson, Ivan Gehring, and Jonah Graham.
Kirstin (Kirstin Anderson) seemed like she had a lot on her plate to suffer through – a brutal workout regime, an even more brutal recovery process, and the kind of diet that [...]
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When She Runs (2018) Film Review from the 17th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Robert Machoian & Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, and starring Kirstin Anderson, Ivan Gehring, and Jonah Graham.
Kirstin (Kirstin Anderson) seemed like she had a lot on her plate to suffer through – a brutal workout regime, an even more brutal recovery process, and the kind of diet that [...]
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- 4/19/2018
- by Sam Joseph
- Film-Book
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